If you wish to keep your budget down you could use the Divinarius Dagger as your spell dmg weapon which allows for your shield charging whilst still providing really good stats. This is later replaced by a better rolled rare one.

By using the "PURE TALENT JEWEL" (FIX LINK LATER GHAZZY) with the planed skilltree you are provided with extra crit chance as well as a nice attribute bonus to help gearing.

Atziri's Foible is a solid amulet choice which helps gearing attribute requirements as well as helping you with the mana sustaining of your MoM effect.

You can always drop some ehP & damage for the nice boost of Magic Finding with the Bisco's Collar.

A standard CWDT setup is in place as well as a Wither CWC Skeleton approach to increase chaos damage taken by the enemies as well as a manually cast DESPAIR CURSE (FIX LINK LATER GHAZZY), this helps you keep enemies away from you as well as significantly making boss fights easier.

You'll want to start with the Hireophant via Templar Ascendancy for that sweet extra totem on a 4L till you get better stuffs later, this can also be abused heavily if you get yourself a nice Elder item with any of the support gems you want in your 5-6L.

After this you will want to head over to the Assassin via Shadow Ascendancy to get yourself extra crit chance.

Ultimately you'd want to continue on the Assassin path to get yourself the starter points over at the Shadow for more dmg & some extra HP.

When the skilltree is finished you have 3 options:1) Get Power Charges (including the spell dmg per power charge node above witch starter area)2) Mana nodes to help sustain the MoM3) Jewels
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Leveling Tips:

Simply use Dark Pact totem as soon as you get it and self-cast skeletons vs bosses, super smooth!

The base items of this build really doesn't matter as we don't care about the base defensive stats such as armour(str), evasion(dex) or energy shield(int). So instead the base items will follow the stat priority listed in this guide.
However, the attribute requirement of the items will base how hard it is to chrome (color) which will be the only thing we will think about when planing our gearing.
So, if you need 4 blue sockets in an item the recommendation is to get an item that has Energy Shield (int) base or a hybrid base which includes Energy Shield (int).

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Do report any issues or problems you might notice in the guide please! :)

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Im lloking to try this build in hc, are there any important changes with going hc? Also which of the gear versions would be better for it? Thirdly could you have a pledge on weapon swap for boss killing?

Im lloking to try this build in hc, are there any important changes with going hc? Also which of the gear versions would be better for it? Thirdly could you have a pledge on weapon swap for boss killing?

Thanks in advance

Hey,

Having enough leech before moving over to DP is highly crucial or you simply will die, I will say that for hardcore I don't think Pledge of Hands will feel safe, I found myself in situations out of range of enemies that almost killed me since I couldn't quickly shield charge to them properly. However, switching weapons for the boss kills is doable but again, not something I would recommend as it will take some time away from you leeching up your lost HP.

So my recommendation for HC is Covenant or Carcass Jack with any 1H + Shield, you could run maps with a Brightbeak for speed and weapon swap to 2x 1H for more damage but I don't think it's worth the investment or hazzle.

Do you think this would be doable in ssf? I was thinking of aiming towards a covenant and 1h + shield approach. Then make changes depending on what gear I'd find.

I believe the build can work as SSF yeah, however, I honestly wouldn't want to switch to DP till I had either a Doedre's Elixir with Cloaked in Savagery (Uber Lab) or at least 1 Atziri's Promise, which you can easily get by lvling the character as AWT and speccing a bit more in to that type of damage to kill regular Atziri with before switching to the DP as it relies so heavily on leeching when it comes to boss kill potential.

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